Scientific publications

The EU dairy sector has faced new challenges since the main EU enlargement in 2004. This paper investigates spatial raw milk price transmission between Germany, France, the Netherlands, Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia. The study applies the Granger Causality test to analyse the short-term raw milk price movements between the selected markets.

During the COVID-19 crisis, there were many restrictions to transportation. Due to that, a significant disruption in the food supply chain has emerged. The transportation of the fresh food and maintaining the quality, from farm to the table or distributing and then collecting from the warehouses and delivering to the consumer, has become crucial. Technologies and especially IoT, have become the primary tool to fight it. The research objective is to analyze and create new knowledge about digital technologies used to improve and make more effective the food supply chain processes.

This paper suggests that the efficiency of a system (decision-making unit) and its subsystem cannot be properly measured using a two-stage data envelopment analysis (DEA) model either in cooperative or non-cooperative evaluation. Indeed, the existing methods subjectively determine the status of the subsystems in the whole system. The two-stage DEA models, either cooperative game or non-cooperative game, are used to analyze the environmental efficiency.

The purpose of the article is to assess the optimal ratio of environmental taxes in the context of national security. National security is defined as a complex parameter of indicators of economic, environmental and energy security, sensitive to the impact of environmental taxation, according to the method of Kolmogorov-Gabor. The environmental taxes with the greatest impact on the three identified components of national security have been selected.

Tomas Baležentis, Tianxiang Li, Xueli Chen Tomas Baležentis, Tianxiang Li, Xueli Chen. 2021. Has agricultural labor restructuring improved agricultural labor productivity in China? A decomposition approach, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Volume 76, 100967, ISSN 0038-0121; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2020.100967.

The article aims to identify the risk groups arising in foreign trade in the four main groups of processed beverages at a national level. Processed agricultural drinks do not fall into the category of essential food. The article examines four main drink groups: waters (including mineral waters and aerated waters, with additive), beer, wine, and other alcoholic (e.g.,spirits, liqueurs, whiskies, rums, gins, vodkas, etc.) beverages. The case of Lithuania is presented.

Each country faces both export and import risks in its trade. The analysis of this research seeks to answer the question about what kind of risks are posed by imports. The purpose of the document is to analyze the purpose of the import and most common risks posed by imports and to assess the trends in imports of Lithuanian agricultural and food products.

Early retirement from farming had been proposed by many of the EU measures. The age structure in the EU currently demands a shift in such an outdated approach, focusing on the treasury experiences of elderly people, which should be utilized by involving them in social and economic activities at the same time. Among the key challenges for rural development policy aiming to increase the quality of life of elder people, next to the traditional help and support measures, is the involvement of the elder generation in economic and social life as well. Therefore, the new EU agricultural policy measures should ensure that funding and institutional incentives support extending the working and active social life of elder farmers.

The phenomena of corporate social responsibility (CSR) had been widely discussed from different scientific and practical perspectives worldwide for almost a century. In its initial phase, the main focus was the demand for social responsibilities from businesses in general. Recently, all sectors and all spheres of human activity consider the importance and use of social responsibility, including agribusiness. This study aims to elucidate the importance of the principles of agribusiness social responsibility from a farmer’s point of view.

Covid-19 pandemic provided many negative effects on world economies and people around the world. The covid-19 creates many threats to sustainability of agriculture sector which is very sensitive because of food supply security needs. First of all, it is necessary to analyse and comprehend the immediate consequences of current pandemic on agricultural and food systems in order to develop necessary actions. The risks, vulnerability, resilience and systemic shifts of agricultural systems need to be better understood in order to adapt to covid-19 pandemic. The aim of this paper is to analyse the negative impacts of covid-19 on agriculture and food systems by applying vulnerability and resilience approach by treating covid-19 like global disaster.